A. LIHEAP Household
Report information collection is conducted in accordance with the Low-Income
Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) statute (Public Law
97-35, as amended),
and 45 CFR
96.82. Information received from this
collection provides data to the Administration and Congress in its oversight of
grantees' performance in administering the LIHEAP program. The responses to
this collection are required in order to obtain LIHEAP funding in accordance
with Section 2605(c) (1) (G) of the LIHEAP statute.
The purposes of the LIHEAP Household Report is to report on
the number of households assisted with current federal fiscal year funds and
those LIHEAP funds obligated in the prior federal fiscal year, but not expended
until the current federal fiscal year.
B. Program Integrity Assessment is part of an
effort by HHS to ensure that effective preventive controls, fraud detection,
monitoring, and prosecution systems exist at all levels of the program's
administration to prevent improper payments, fraud, waste or abuse. Subgrantees
must specifically address how the plan will address key elements of an
effective fraud prevention system.
C. LIHEAP Performance Measures report is
required by The Office of Community Services (OCS) as a part of the LIHEAP
statute to report to Congress on program impacts annually, to develop
performance goals, to ensure that benefits are targeted to those households
with the greatest home energy need, and to assure that timely resources are
available to households experiencing home energy crises.
OCS published a Federal Register notice on June 6, 2013,
announcing their intent to seek authorization to require state LIHEAP grantees
to report on several new outcome-based LIHEAP performance measures. OCS is now
proposing to collect annual data that will establish four performance
indicators of the impact of LIHEAP services on its recipients. The data
collected will be synthesized to create the following performance
measures:
1) Benefit Targeting Index
for High Burden Households - measures the extent to which the highest benefits
are provided to the LIHEAP recipient households with the highest energy burden
(the percent of gross income spent on utility costs);
2) Energy Burden Reduction Index for High
Burden Households - measures the extent to which LIHEAP benefits are adequate
to deliver the same energy burden reduction to high burden recipient households
as to low and moderate burden recipient households;
3) Prevention of Loss of Home Energy Services
- the unduplicated count of households where LIHEAP prevented the loss of home
energy services; and
4) Restoration
of Home Energy Services - the unduplicated count of households where LIHEAP
restored home energy services to the client.
D. Leveraging Report - The State of
Mississippi shall participate in the LIHEAP Leveraging Incentive Program.
Subgrantees are required to report annually on leveraged resources/benefits
received to further assist low-income households with energy-related services.
Examples of leveraged resources/benefits include but are not limited to:
discounts, arrearage forgiveness, deposit waivers, weatherization material
donations, reconnect fee waivers.
E. Monthly Cost Sheets are required to be
submitted monthly by Subgrantees to show expenditures by cost category and line
items. These forms should be submitted to the Division of Budgets and
Accounting, Office of Procurement Services.
